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"Identities in the writer complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish Identities

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O'Brien, E.(2003). 'Identites in the writer complexus: Joyce, Europe and Irish Identities'. in Coates,B.,Lynch,P. and Fischer,J.(eds.),Back to the Present: Irish Writing and History since 1798. Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, Volume 2,217-232.

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O'Brien, E.(2003). 'Identites in the writer complexus: Joyce, Europe and Irish Identities'. in Coates,B.,Lynch,P. and Fischer,J.(eds.),Back to the Present: Irish Writing and History since 1798. Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, Volume 2,217-232.

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This chapter examines forms of negative identity in terms of two intersecting verbal axes: Joyce‟s own term, gnomon and Jacques Derrida‟s term hauntology. Both terms gesture towards forms of negative identity which are the very antithesis of foundational or fundamental identity and I will trace this argument through some of Joyce‟s writings.